Speaker
Description
There is a worldwide demand for power, most recently driven by the >200 new chips fabs being built and the number of data centers being built and planned.
We need to turn to the nuclear solutions to solve these energy hungry global activities.
The problem is always the concern on the waste final disposition.
Used nuclear fuel reaches radiotoxicity equivalent to natural uranium ore in > 100,000 years Partitioning and recycling of uranium, plutonium, and minor actinides in spent fuel reduces this to ~300 years, vastly reducing the challenges associated with storage in permanent facilities
The goal is to transmute the most problematic isotopes in spent nuclear fuel: minor actinides and long-lived fission products Such a solution shifts the issue of used nuclear fuel disposition from an intergenerational issue to an intragenerational one.
Funding Agency
Many
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